Thursday, June 26, 2014

Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3)
bringing a further integration between components and a bunch of new
features. This blog is one in a series of new features summaries about
SOA Suite 12c to view them all check this blog.

This
blog will summaries the features specific to Service Bus and the
Enterprise Manager Dashboards. The features are summarised, but most
will get an own blog that tells about the full details. Oracle renamed
the product from OSB (Oracle Service Bus) to SB (Service Bus),
apparently it also stands for Oracle Secure Backup.

Integrated with JDeveloper

Service
Bus is now integrated in JDeveloper, so no Eclipse anymore as default
IDE. Since I mentioned the integration in the Developer Productivity
blog of this series I won’t go into the details again, but there are
still some things to mention. The development of a Service Bus
application uses its own Application workspace and it is not possible to
combine SOA and Service Bus projects in one application workspace. When
creating a SB project you can create it together with a Service Bus
Application or on its own.

Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3) bringing
a further integration between components and a bunch of new features.
This blog is one in a series of new features summaries about SOA Suite
12c to view them all check this blog.

This
blog will summaries the features specific to SCA Composites / BPEL and
the Enterprise Manager Dashboards. The features are summarised, but most
will get an own blog that tells about the full details.

Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3)
bringing a further integration between components and a bunch of new
features. This blog is one in a series of new features summaries about
SOA Suite 12c to view them all check this blog.

This
blog will summaries the features specific to the Developer Productivity
and Integration in JDeveloper and in the Enterprise Manager. The
features are summarised, but most will get an own blog that tells about
the full details.

Developer installer with integrated server

To
kick-start developing with 12c, ’30 minutes to Hello World’, Oracle
created a single download for JDeveloper and Database, Weblogic and SOA
Suite. It’s one single package which include JDeveloper, a integrated
Weblogic service with SOA Suite (including Service Bus), JavaDB (for
it’s Database) and the Enterprise Manager.

All software is
installed into a single middleware home directory as specified at
install time. In JDeveloper, the WebLogic Integrated Server is
pre-configured with above SOA Suite components runtime and JavaDB.
JavaDB is a development database that allows one to start development
with SOA Suite without the need to run RCU.

30 minutes to Hello WorldThis
release advertises that the install, configuration, and startup time
for the integrated server such a development environment takes less than
30 minutes. I can say that it took me less time on my laptop (Quadcore,
16GB).

Upgrading ProductionA production
environment can be upgraded if it runs 11.1.1.6 (PS5) or 11.1.1.7 (PS6).
The end result is a full 12c installation, but there is no rollback
scenario, so backup database and Weblogic domain first before upgrading.

Oracle released SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3)
bringing a further integration between components and a bunch of new
features. Most of them are quite spectacular, but at the same time all
are useful. A release to persuade potential buyers and a lot more to
please users of the product.

This blog will go through the most
important new features in summary and will reference the blogs that will
go through the new features per technology. This blog will list the
most game changing feature(s) per technology/tooling; Jdeveloper, SOA
Suite (SCA Composites), Service Bus (SB), Enterprise Manager, OEP,
Managed File Transfer (MFT), etc.

Developer Productivity & Integration

Developer installer with integrated server

To kick-start developing with 12c, ’30 minutes to Hello World’, Oracle created a single download for JDeveloper and Database, Weblogic and SOA Suite. It’s one single package which include JDeveloper, a integrated Weblogic service with SOA Suite (including Service Bus), JavaDB (for it’s Database) and the Enterprise Manager.

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About Me

Robert is a Senior Oracle Integration Specialist and Oracle ACE Associate with an emphasis on building service-oriented business processes. Robert has over 7 years of experience in Oracle's SOA Suite and Oracle's Service Bus.
His current interests are SOA-based IoT (Internet Of Things) solutions and SOA Suite 11g/12c (BPEL, Service Bus, OEP, MFT).